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To take a bit of a contrarian perspective here, pornography has been linked to human trafficking, at least in Nevada. So if we want to distance ourselves from t
by swasheck 12y ago
To take a bit of a contrarian perspective here, pornography has been linked to human trafficking, at least in Nevada. So if we want to distance ourselves from the religious moral and ethical arguments that oppose the "we're not actually harming ourselves" perspective, there is, at least in part, the perspective that viewing pornography contributes to violations against those viewed.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0615162053?ie=UTF8&tag=prostreseaa02-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0615162053 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0615162053?ie=UTF8&tag=pros...
- walru 12y agoI'll combat your contrarian point with this study from UGA on states that preach abstinence as their form of teen contraception. http://news.uga.edu/releases/article/abstinence-only-education-does-not-lead-to-abstinent-behavior/ http://news.uga.edu/releases/article/abstinence-only-educati...
- swasheck 12y agoHow does this combat my point? Are you referencing the line "correlation does not imply causation"? If so, never once did I imply that the sole cause of human trafficking is pornography.
- walru 12y agoEven if it was the slightest cause, by ending porn the world over you will not diminish the act of human trafficking or prostitution. In fact, you may, and probably will, only strengthen the practice as people look to other means to live out their urges. As has been learned by the conservatives who thought telling teenage kids they should wait, or that sex was bad, to tip the scales in their favor.
- rudolf0 12y ago>pornography has been linked to human trafficking Water has also been linked to human rights abuses in the form of waterboarding.
- swasheck 12y agoSo your perspective is, "meh. We can't do anything about injustices to humanity so we'll just roll with it?" I find your analogy flawed by comparing viewing pornography with water. I don't see how they compare.
- rudolf0 12y agoWe can stop human trafficking without placing restrictions on pornography, except for specific pornographic content proven to be linked to human trafficking.
- swasheck 12y agoThanks for the downvote. I can see I've hurt the hive-mind's feelings.
- rudolf0 12y agoI did not downvote you or anyone else in this thread.
- DenisM 12y agoMere linkage is the flimsiest of possible arguments. We can link TV to violence, and then ban all video content based on that. A better argument would be quantifying the negative impact, weighting it compared to positive impact, and then using that weight to judge the merit, both in absolute and relative to other thing we decided to ban or not ban.
- swasheck 12y agoWhile I completely agree with your statement --- the Internet filters at my place of employment block access to many of the keywords associated with finding these numbers.